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"Indica means 'in-da-couch', man; it's gonna give you a heavy body high," she might tell you, "Sativas are more uplifting and heady."
That's a gross generalization, though. It's kind of like saying that sports cars go fast and electric cars save gas. It's true enough in general, but it doesn't mean you can't find a fuel-efficient sports car or a fast electric car. Other details matter.
Indica strains evolved in the hot, dry conditions. Strains like Afghani or Hindu Kush grew short and bushy with wide leaves to better handle low moisture and hot temperatures.
Sativa strains evolved in wetter, cooler conditions. Strains like Panama Red or Thai grew tall and lanky with thin leaves to better respirate in the high humidity.
These kinds of pure indica or sativa strains are called landrace and are very rare to find these days, though. You're much more likely to find hybrid strains that are cross-bred from indicas and sativas.
And that's where the confusionbegins.
This hybridization happens naturally, when pollen from one strain blows over into another strain, but artificial hybridization is much more common. Just like we bred dogs and horses based on their certain traits to create animals better suited to our needs, we bred cannabis strains to shape their traits to our liking. Sativas take longer to mature, generally, so growers mixed in some indica to speed up the process. Other strains may have been mixed in to increase production volume per plant.
Still, you'll hear reference to "sativa-dominant" hybrids like Silver Haze or Blue Dream and to "indica dominant" hybrids like Girl Scout Cookies or OG Kush. The former are supposed to give you a lot of the head high with a little bit of the body high; the latter are supposed to be the reverse.
Yet even that's not going to always be an accurate way to determine the high you're going to get. How a particular strain is grown can make some difference in how it performs. Harvesting too early or too late, curing too little or too long, changes in soil, water, and lighting – all of these can introduce or suppress certain traits in the plant. That Durban Poison you rely on to be a buzzy sativa high may have been such when it was grown hydroponically under LEDs, but maybe not so much grown outdoors in a low-humidity, high-altitude region.
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Curtis Mosher (left), Eric Henderson (middle) and Mike Mcloskey (right) have assembled a prototype biomimetic tree that produces electricity. Such technology could appeal to a niche market in the future, according to the researchers.
AMES, Iowa – Money doesn't grow on trees, but electricity might someday. Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree and generates electricity when its artificial leaves sway in the wind. Michael McCloskey, an associate professor of genetics, development and cell biology who led the design of the device, said the concept won't replace wind turbines, but the technology could spawn a niche market for small and visually unobtrusive machines that turn wind into electricity. "The possible advantages here are aesthetics and its smaller scale, which may allow off-grid energy harvesting," McCloskey said recently in his ISU laboratory. "We set out to answer the question of whether you can get useful amounts of electrical power out of something that looks like a plant. The answer is 'possibly,' but the idea will require further development." McCloskey said cell phone towers in some urban locations, such as Las Vegas, have been camouflaged as trees, complete with leaves that serve only to improve the tower's aesthetic appeal. Tapping energy from those leaves would increase their functionality, he said. In a paper published this month in the peer-reviewed academic journal PLOS ONE, the ISU research team delves into the world of biomimetics, or the use of artificial means to mimic natural processes. The concept has inspired new ways of approaching fields as varied as computer science, manufacturing and nanotechnology. It's unlikely that many people would mistake the prototype in McCloskey's laboratory for a real tree. The device features a metallic trellis, from which hang a dozen plastic flaps in the shape of cottonwood leaves. Curtis Mosher, an associate scientist at Iowa State and co-author of the paper, said it's not that great of a leap from the prototype the researchers built to a much more convincing artificial tree with tens of thousands of leaves, each producing electricity derived from wind power. "It's definitely doable, but the trick is accomplishing it without compromising efficiency," Mosher said. "More work is necessary, but there are paths available." Small strips of specialized plastic inside the leaf stalks release an electrical charge when bent by moving air. Such processes are known as piezoelectric effects. Cottonwood leaves were modeled because their flattened leaf stalks compel blades to oscillate in a regular pattern that optimizes energy generation by flexible piezoelectric strips. Eric Henderson, a professor of genetics, development and cell biology who also works on the research team, envisions a future in which biomimetic trees help to power household appliances. Such biomimetic technology could become a market for those who want the ability to generate limited amounts of wind energy without the need for tall and obstructive towers or turbines, Henderson said. But McCloskey said making that vision reality means finding an alternative means of mechanical-to-electrical transduction, or a scheme for converting wind energy into usable electricity. The piezo method adopted for the ISU experiments didn't achieve the efficiency the technology will need to compete in the market. Piezoelectricity was an obvious place to start because the materials are widely available, Henderson said. But taking the next step will require a new approach. Other transduction methods such as triboelectricity, or the generation of charge by friction between dissimilar materials, work at similar efficiency and can power autonomous sensors. However, McCloskey said it will require much greater efficiency – and further research – to produce a practical device.
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David Blaine has publicly apologized to his fiancee after he was caught on camera dancing with another woman at a nightclub.
The illusionist, who proposed to French model Alizee Guinochet in 2009, was spotted getting close to a female reveller on the dance floor at the 46 Lounge venue in New Jersey on Thursday night (17Jan13), prompting speculation his engagement is over.
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Looks like a raping blend of Kingdoms of Amaular (art style) and The Witcher 2s realistic style.
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Source of childhood memories, Playland could close
GREENWICH -- Growing up in Greenwich, Julianna Ivey had many firsts at Playland, a more than 80-year-old amusement park several miles south of town in Rye, N.Y.
It was where she took her first ride on a roller coaster -- the park's famous wooden Dragon Coaster, built in 1929, still operates today -- had her first taste of cotton candy, and it is where she went on her first date at age 13.
The park is a place filled with memories for many Greenwich residents, which is why Ivey, 58, was dismayed to hear that Westchester County, which owns the park, is looking into other possibilities for the land, which could include shutting down the National Historic Landmark.
"If you just wanted to have fun, there was just something for everyone to do," said Ivey, who now lives in Oceanside, Calif. "There's no other place like it."
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has said the park has been losing millions of dollars for years, and cannot continue to operate as it has been, with the cost to maintain the aging rides and Art Deco facilities draining taxpayer dollars.
Donna Greene, a spokeswoman for Astorino, said the process is "very, very exploratory," and there are no immediate plans to close Playland.
The county executive's office is planning to put out a request for proposal, seeking ideas of what to do with the property from private developers. She stressed that the facility sits on dedicated parkland, so condominiums or a shopping mall would not be an option.
"It's still a wonderful park, and we will wait to see the best ideas out there," Greene said.
Though some have suggested a private company lease the park from the county and run it, that has been tried in the past and was not successful. The Marriott Corp. managed Playland for two years in the early 1980s, but bowed out after running on a $2.6 million operating deficit in the first year and reporting a $3 million deficit the next year.
Playland reportedly is the only government-owned and -run amusement park in the country.
This year, the county instituted a new pricing structure, charging $5 admission to the park to people who don't plan to go on any rides. Previously, admission was free. Greene said attendance has been down recently because of the hot weather.
Playland was the country's first fully planned amusement park, and did not evolve at the end of a trolley stop, like others did years ago.
Ivey has fond memories of rides such as the Derby Racer, "a super fast merry-go-round without a pole," where wooden horses circle at speeds of up to 25 mph, one of only a few such rides left in the world. The "Magic Carpet" Fun House was destroyed in a 1966 fire.
The park has also doubled as a film set. Tom Hanks filmed scenes for his Oscar-nominated movie "Big" at Playland, and it served as the amusement park where actress Glenn Close brought Michael Douglas' daughter when she kidnapped her in "Fatal Attraction."
The park has also had some tragedies, including the 2005 death of 7-year-old Jon-Kely Cassara, of Norwalk, who fell and became trapped underneath a conveyer belt on the Ye Old Mill boat ride. Last year, the Cassaras reached a $1.25 million settlement with the county after suing for negligence.
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Academic Capitalism
Richard Münch
Academic capitalism is a unique hybrid that unites the scientific search for truth and the economic maximization of profits. It turns universities into enterprises competing for capital accumulation and businesses into knowledge producers looking for new findings that can be turned into patents and profitable commodities. In order to understand what this new institutional setting means for science and the evolution of scientific knowledge, science as a field in a Bourdieusian perspective, which operates in the tension field between autonomy and heteronomy, is explored. On this basis, crucial features of academic capitalism and their impact on science as well as the evolution of scientific knowledge are described. Academic capitalism is located in the zone of the intersection of scientific research, economic profit maximization, and innovation policy. The institutional conflicts of interest involved in the corporate funding of academic research are addressed. The logic of academic capital accumulation is spelled out by describing the entrepreneurial university. Field effects of academic capital accumulation on science, namely over-investment at the top and under-investment among the rank and file, are examined, along with the organizational effects of academic capital accumulation in terms of managerial quality assurance on diversity and creativity as crucial prerequisites of advancing scientific knowledge. The main results of the analysis are summarized and some guidelines for future research are presented.
Accountability and Responsibility
Robert Gregory
Accountability and responsibility are related ideas that are central to political, constitutional, and institutional arrangements in Western liberal democracies. However, political elites in non-democratic systems are generally not held accountable by citizens through such arrangements, and accountability is primarily a means of securing the compliance of state functionaries to the will of these elites. In liberal democracies the terms "accountability" and "responsibility" are often used in common discourse as if they were synonyms, but they are not. The former is a concept that embodies a number of different types, with a common theme of answerability by an accountor to an accountee, usually—but not necessarily—in a hierarchical relationship designed to ensure compliance and control. Responsibility, on the other hand, speaks of the associated but different domain of individual moral choice, where often conflicting duties of obligation are experienced by those in official positions. Beginning in the 1980s, the so-called new public management movement, which brought major changes to many Western systems of public administration, sought to enhance the accountability of public bureaucrats, especially their answerability to their elected political superiors. The effects have been mixed and uncertain, often with unintended consequences, such as the reinforcement of risk aversion and blame shifting and gaming behavior. The quest for accountability is inherently a political process, in which "holding to account" may often depend much less on any forensic determination of specific culpability and much more on evidential and political disputation, where the search for the "truth" is highly—and increasingly—contestable.
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Paúl Cisneros
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins Smith introduced the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in the late 1980s, to refine the theoretical and methodological tools available for the study of the policy process. In the past two decades, the framework has grown in use outside the United States, and it is now applied to study a broad range of policy arenas in all continents. ACF scholars have created a core community that regularly synthetizes findings from applications of the framework, giving the ACF the form of a true research program.
The ACF has three principal theoretical domains: advocacy coalitions, policy subsystems, and policy change. Expectations about the interactions between and within these domains are contained in 15 main hypotheses. The ACF posits that advocacy coalitions and policy subsystems are the most efficient way to organize actors interested in the policy process for empirical research. The policy subsystem is the main unit of analysis in the ACF, and there are four paths leading to policy change. The aspect that has received more attention in existing applications is the effect that external events have on policy change, and some areas in need of refinement include: policy-oriented learning, interactions across subsystems, the theoretical foundations to identification of belief systems, and how the interactions between beliefs and interests affect coalition behavior.
Advocacy Coalitions in Foreign Policy
Jonathan Pierce and Katherine Hicks
The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) was developed to explain policy processes where contentious coalitions of actors seek to translate competing belief systems into public policy. Advocacy coalitions may include interest groups, members of the media, scientists and academics, and government officials that share beliefs about a public issue and coordinate their behavior. These advocacy coalitions engage in various strategies using resources to influence policy change or stasis. As part of this process, advocacy coalition members may learn within and/or across coalitions.
This framework is one of the most prominent and widely applied approaches to explain public policy. While it has been applied hundreds of times, in over 50 different countries, the vast majority of ACF applications have sought to explain domestic policy processes. A reason for the paucity of applications to foreign policy is that some ACF assumptions may not seem congruent to foreign policy issues. For example, the ACF uses a policy subsystem as the unit of analysis that may include a territorial dimension. Yet, the purpose of the territorial dimension is to limit the scope of the study. Therefore, this dimension can be substituted for a government body that has the authority or potential authority to make and implement foreign policy. In addition, the ACF assumes a central role for technical and scientific information in the policy process. Such information makes learning across coalitions more conducive, but the ACF can and should also be applied to normative issues, such as those more common among foreign policy research.
This article introduces the ACF; provides an overview of the framework, including assumptions, key concepts and theories, and transferability of the ACF to foreign policy analysis; and discusses four exemplary applications. In addition, it proposes future research that scholars should explore as part of the nexus of the ACF and foreign policy analysis. In the final analysis, the authors suggest the ACF can and should be applied to foreign policy analysis to better understand the development of advocacy coalitions and how they influence changes and stasis in foreign policy.
The Aftermaths of Civil Conflicts
Jaclyn M. Johnson and Clayton L. Thyne
The devastating Syrian civil war that began after the Arab Spring in 2011 has reminded the international community of the many consequences of civil war. However, this conflict is simply one of many ongoing conflicts around the globe. Civil war has a number of effects on individual lives, the country experiencing the conflict, as well as the international system more broadly.
The humanitarian costs of civil war are steep. Individuals are negatively impacted by civil war in a myriad of ways. Three main areas of research are of interest: mortality, physical and mental trauma, and education. Several factors increase the number of deaths in a civil war, including a lack of democracy, economic downturns, and foreign assistance to combatants. Even if civilians survive conflict, they are likely to endure trauma that affects both mental and physical health. Strong evidence indicates that civil war spreads infectious diseases and severely diminishes life expectancy. Mental health is also likely to suffer in the face of conflict, as individuals often must overcome debilitating trauma. Finally, children are particularly susceptible in civil war settings. Children are often unable to continue their education as a consequence of civil war because combatants often target schools strategically or the state is unable to fund education as a result of funneling resources to the conflict.
Civil wars also pose a number of threats to the state itself. First, a state that has experienced a civil war is much more likely to have another civil war in its future. Conflict recurrence has been explained through the type of settlement that concludes the initial civil war, institutions that may prevent recurrence like proportional representation, and the role of third parties in providing peace-ensuring security guarantees. Beyond recurrence of war, scholars have looked at the impact that civil wars have on state-level institutions, including democratization. While most state-level effects of civil war seem to be deleterious, there may also be positive effects, specifically in terms of female representation. Civil war in sub-Saharan Africa has been shown to increase the number of female representatives, perhaps providing an avenue for gender equality.
Civil wars have ripple effects that impact neighboring countries and the international system more broadly. Proximate states are often challenged with an influx of refugees that may burden social programs or facilitate the spread of diseases and illicit arms. However, positive consequences of hosting refugees may include trading opportunities or economic growth from remittances. Moving beyond proximate states, civil wars have consequences for the entire globe. For example, civil wars have been demonstrated to spur international terrorism. The civil war literature has explored the various effects of conflict at the individual, state, and interstate level.
Agenda Setting and Case Selection on the U.S. Supreme Court
Elizabeth A. Lane and Ryan C. Black
The Supreme Court's docket consists of thousands of cases each term, with petitioners hoping at least four justices will be compelled to grant review to their case. The decision to move a case from their docket to their calendar for oral arguments and all intermediate steps is what is known as the agenda-setting process. This is a fundamental step in the judicial process, as the Supreme Court cannot establish precedent and affect policy change without first deciding to review.
Agenda Setting and the Policy Process: Focusing Events
Thomas A. Birkland
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Agenda setting is a crucial aspect of the public policy process. Sudden, rare, and harmful events known as focusing events can be important influences on the policy process. Such events can reveal current and potential future harms, mobilize people and groups to address the policy failures that may be revealed by such events, and open the "window of opportunity" for intensive policy discussion and potential policy change. But focusing events operate differently at different times and in different policy domains. While the idea of focusing events is firmly rooted in Kingdon's "streams approach" to the policy process, focusing events are an important element of most contemporary theories of the policy process. But not every event works as a focusing event. The process by which a focusing event can yield policy change is complex and involves attention to the problems revealed by the event, as well as evidence of learning from the event on the part of policy makers. While focusing events are important, in many ways the concept remains underdeveloped, with few researchers seeking to understand the dynamics of these important events.
Agent-Based Computational Modeling and International Relations Theory: Quo Vadis?
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Agent-based computational modeling (ABM, for short) is a formal and supplementary methodological approach used in international relations (IR) theory and research, based on the general ABM paradigm and computational methodology as applied to IR phenomena. ABM of such phenomena varies according to three fundamental dimensions: scale of organization—spanning foreign policy, international relations, regional systems, and global politics—as well as by geospatial and temporal scales. ABM is part of the broader complexity science paradigm, although ABMs can also be applied without complexity concepts. There have been scores of peer-reviewed publications using ABM to develop IR theory in recent years, based on earlier pioneering work in computational IR that originated in the 1960s that was pre-agent based. Main areas of theory and research using ABM in IR theory include dynamics of polity formation (politogenesis), foreign policy decision making, conflict dynamics, transnational terrorism, and environment impacts such as climate change. Enduring challenges for ABM in IR theory include learning the applicable ABM methodology itself, publishing sufficiently complete models, accumulation of knowledge, evolving new standards and methodology, and the special demands of interdisciplinary research, among others. Besides further development of main themes identified thus far, future research directions include ABM applied to IR in political interaction domains of space and cyber; new integrated models of IR dynamics across domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyber; and world order and long-range models.
The Age-Structural Theory of State Behavior
Richard Cincotta
Over the past three decades, economic and political demographers, using various measures, have discerned that increased age-structural maturity makes significant statistical contributions to levels of per capita income, to educational attainment, to declines in the frequency of onsets of intrastate conflict, and to the likelihood of achieving and maintaining liberal democracy. Some of the stronger statistical relationships have been used in forecasts. For example, using the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) demographic projections, political demographers have relied on the strong statistical association between age structure and stable liberal democracy to forecast the rise of democracy in North Africa more than two years in advance (in 2008)—at a time when regional experts believed that forecast to be absurd.
Whereas critics remain skeptical of the murky causal connections of age-structural theory, its proponents counter that causality in the development of state capacity is complex and is less important than the theory's positive qualities (namely, that it is forward-looking, its statistical findings are easily repeated, its forecasts have outcompeted regional experts, and its predictive products can be readily adapted to the needs of intelligence foresight, defense planning, and foreign policy analysis). Perhaps most important, the age-structural theory of state behavior has yielded a surprising number of "novel facts"—new knowledge concerning the observed pace and timing of state political, social, and economic behaviors.
Akamatsu Waves
Arno Tausch, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev
In 1937, the Japanese economist Kaname Akamatsu discovered specific links between the rise and decline of the global peripheries. Akamatsu's theory of development describes certain mechanisms whose working results in the narrowing of the gap between the level of development of the economy of developing and developed countries, and, thus, in the re-structuring of the relationships between the global core and the global periphery. Akamatsu developed his model on the basis of his analysis of the economic development of Japan before World War II, with a special emphasis on the development of the Japanese textile industry. Akamatsu's catch-up development includes three phases: import of goods, organization of the production of previously imported products, and export of those goods. This model proved to be productive for analyzing the development of many other developing countries, especially in East Asia, making the theory of flying geese popular among the economists of these countries, as well as the whole world. The "flying geese" model produces certain swings that may be denoted as Akamatsu waves. Akamatsu waves may be defined as cycles (with a period ranging from 20 to 60 years) that are connected with convergence and divergence of core and periphery of the World System in a way that explains cyclical upward and downward swings (at global and national levels) in the movements of the periphery countries as they catch up with the richer ones.


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Many houses in Cambodia's ever-changing seasonal lakes are built on stilts. They rise above a muddy plain in the dry season, but are surrounded by a sea of water when the rains come.
Many Cambodians in this region live on less than a dollar a day -- or simply don't use cash at all.
A floating cafe in the village of Kampong Phluk. Instead of erecting stilts, some residents elect to ebb and flow with the waters.
In the stilt village of Kampong Phluk, the lake served as the primary thoroughfare.
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Fried shrimp, held together with a little rice flour. Fresh fish and crustaceans are ubiquitous in this waterlogged area of Cambodia.
Shrimp are boiled beneath a stilt house in Kampong Phluk.
Around Kampong Phluk, even modern houses are on stilts.
Sticks are harvested in the flooded forest at the edge of Tonle Sap lake, near Kampong Phluk.
Houses float in the village of Chong Kneas.
Stone faces at Angkor's Bayon temple, a world-class attraction not far from the impoverished aquatic village of Kampong Phluk.
Angkor Wat and the complex surrounding it, including the Banteay Srei temple, draw droves of tourists.
Carvings at Banteay Srei temple, part of the Angkor complex.


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Ava L. Parker talks with excitement about the many tasks and challenges of bringing life to Florida Polytechnic University.
Ava L. Parker talks with excitement about the many tasks and challenges of bringing life to Florida Polytechnic University.
Hiring faculty to match the polytechnic's unique-to-Florida process of research, analysis and direct application to business; recruiting students; completing buildings; finding funding; and filling in the thousands of unseeable blanks in between bring answer after answer after answer from Parker, the poly interim chief operating officer.
There is no lack of smart solutions if only there will be enough hours and days, and weeks and months, between now and the opening of Florida's 12th state university in northeast Lakeland in August 2014.
Parker spoke to Ledger news editors, a reporter and the Editorial Board on Thursday.
"The board of Florida Polytechnic is building a standalone institution," Parker said. "That's as opposed to the former arrangement under which USF Polytechnic was part of the USF System, and also as opposed to suggestions that a partnership with a research or technical university could be helpful.
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Florida Poly will need all the agility and speed it can find because it faces a monumental race against time.
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They include becoming accredited, having students with a full-time equivalency of 1,244 and completion of three buildings, including residence halls for 190 students.
This may be why Parker speaks with such enthusiasm about Ghazi Darkazalli from Bedford, Mass., the university's first academic hire. He is interim vice president of academic affairs and serves as provost. Previously he was president and CEO of Marian Court College in Swampscott, Mass.
"I talk to Dr. Darkazalli all the time about the fact that I need more people who are into research on the academic side so they can start building out some of the things we discuss."
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text: Latest Video News Trump's SOTU criticized by liberal media for its traditional tone Immigration, North Korea, nuclear arsenal and more from Trump's first SOTU. Published 7 months ago on January 31, 2018 By Alex Christoforou 266 Views Share Tweet Mainstream media rushed to fact-check US President Trump's first State of the Union address, and then moved on to the attack, blasting Trump's call to traditional values and love of country. Trump touched briefly on geo-politics, deciding to place more focus on internal achievements and goals. RT breaks down Trump's first SOTU… Meanwhile, the liberal media was visibly upset that Trump did not go after Russia… In an article hot on the heels of the address, Huffington Post's Akbar Shahid Ahmed accused Trump of letting Russia off too easy. The president only mentioned Russia once in his speech (as he did with China), merely referring to it as a rival, not a sworn enemy hell-bent on America's downfall. Comparing Trump's wording to his predecessor's, it is easy to see what upset the Huffington Post writer so much. As Barack Obama's presidency wore on, he started placing Russia ahead of even Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) on the list of challenges facing the US. Against that backdrop, Trump's humble "rivals… that challenge our interests, our economy, and our values," may indeed seem mild. Trump is taken to task for calling his "authoritarian" Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – who is at the end of his third presidential term and still enjoys high approval ratings – "a strong leader." The Kremlin's supposed "interference in the 2016 election to improve Trump's odds," much decried but never backed by any public evidence, gets an honorable mention as well. While that line of attack is hardly surprising, veteran liberal journalist Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC took another approach, sharing with her million-odd Twitter followers her disdain over Trump's love of what many see as traditional American values. Church … family … police … military … the national anthem … Trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for. #SOTU — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 31, 2018 Church, family, police and military are all dismissed here as attributes of a "bygone era," good only to try and "force the normalization of Trump" – which, as Joy reveals in the comments to her tweet, is "anything but normal." Commenters alternate between slamming Reid as an "America-hater" and "out-of-touch liberal," and attacking Trump as "Hitler reincarnate" with "literal Nazis" for advisers. 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Bruce Ohr Texts, Emails Reveal Steele's Deep Ties to Obama DOJ, FBI Corrupt Robert Mueller's despicable Paul Manafort trial nears end (Video) Comments Latest Judicial Watch Calls for Re-Opening of Hillary Email Investigation After More Classified Info Found Judicial Watching is calling for a re-opening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails after finding more classified information on the former Secretary of State's non-"state.gov" email system. Published 8 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com, On Thursday, the watchdog revealed that it had received two batches, 184 pages and 45 pages, of newly uncovered emails belonging to Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecured server. The emails were uncovered by a FOIA lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a March 4, 2015 FOIA request seeking all emails sent or received by Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address. Judicial Watch broke down what they found: On June 7, 2011, Clinton received classified information on her non-secure email account from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which Blair also forwarded to Jake Sullivan, about Blair's Middle East negotiations with Israel, the Palestinians and the French On January 26, 2010, Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan sent classified information via his unsecure Blackberry to Huma Abedin's State Department email account that he'd earlier sent to Clinton's and Abedin's non-secure @clintonemail.com email accounts about U.K. negotiations with Northern Ireland. On October 28, 2010, Clinton exchanges information with her friend Marty Torrey – a congressional aide – who asks Clinton in an email if she would advise that Torrey meet with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Clinton responds through her non-secure email account approving the meeting and notes that she is emailing him from Hanoi, Vietnam. An email chain dated April 8, 2010, which contains a memo from Sid Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton related to the change of government in Kyrgyzstan, contains information classified "confidential" and is redacted as "foreign government information" and "foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources." Blumenthal urges Clinton to "develop relations" with the new government in Kyrgyzstan. These emails caused Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton to call for the Department of Justice to re-open the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server during her time in office. BREAKING: More classified Clinton emails uncovered by @JudicialWatch lawsuit! The Comey-Strzok-Lynch Clinton email "matter" was a sham, so it is urgent that Attorney General Jeff Sessions to order a new criminal investigation. https://t.co/Kn0umGFh7n pic.twitter.com/yJmOGmcl1M — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 16, 2018 "These emails were undercovered from the emails that Hillary Clinton tried to delete or otherwise hide from the American people," Fitton said in a video posted Thursday. "These new emails once again show why the Clinton email investigation needs to be re-opened by the Justice Department." The batch of emails also disclosed a January 26, 2010, email to Hillary Clinton's private server from her deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan, that is classified "confidential" and contains a "call sheet" that Clinton received prior to a call with Northern Ireland political leaders. Interesting, but not surprising, is also an email that shows a meeting scheduled between Hillary Clinton and leftwing billionaire George Soros. Continue Reading Latest Doug Casey on Social Media: "Facebook enshrines stupidity" "Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook." Published 8 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Joel Bowman via InternationalMan.com: Joel Bowman: G'day, Doug. Thanks for speaking with us today. Doug Casey: No problem, Joel. It's a pleasure to hear your Australian accent come across the ether from Mexico. Joel: Let's dive right in. A week or two ago, Facebook registered the largest single day loss for any one company in stock market history – roughly $122 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost around $15 billion himself, as much as the annual GDP of several resource-rich, West African nations. Looking back to 2000, during the go-go days of the dot.com boom, Intel and Microsoft both registered staggering single-day losses, too… $90 billion and $80 billion, respectively. And we know what happened next in that case… So, investors want to know… is past prologue? What's next for Silicon Valley's tech darlings? Doug: Talking about losing multiple billions in a single day, it's really a sign of the times. I remember when the only billionaires in the world were Howard Hughes, John Paul Getty and John Beresford Tipton– the mythical billionaire on a 1950's-era show called "The Millionaire." These days, however, it seems everyone's a billionaire. In fact, there are several thousand billionaires roaming the planet today, with new ones being minted almost every day. Of course, much of this so-called wealth is just paper. It's not real. In fact, it's pretty clear to me that we're in a stock market bubble. Which is being driven by the bond market hyper-bubble. And that, in turn, is fueling a real estate bubble, which I believe is just now beginning to deflate in major cities around the world. None of this augurs well for the stock market. You've got bubbles all over the place. Except in the resource market. That's the one place that hasn't inflated. In fact, it's been going down since it's last peak in 2011. Getting back to Facebook, I hope it goes bankrupt. I hate it as an institution. I hate what it does. I don't like its policies. I don't like its management. I don't like the fact that it's causing people to destroy whatever privacy they have left. While turning their brains to mush sending out selfies all day. Joel: You've put a lot on the table there, Doug. Let's unpack a bit of that, starting with the general tendency toward cerebral rot… Many younger readers may not remember this, but there actually existed a time before everybody knew everything, when people had to read books and discuss them, engage in healthy debate and rigorous dialectic in order to learn and develop intellectually. Now that everyone apparently has plenty of time to Instagram their kale salads and "like" one and other's cat pictures, are we to assume mankind has finally reached the End of Learning…some new Age of Enlightenment? Or might Facebook and its (anti)social media cousins represent – in addition to the potential fallout for investors – another, hidden cost to society? Doug: Perhaps humanity is bifurcating into the Morlocks and the Eloi at this point. It's true that people used to go to libraries. But even the Library of Congress has only a tiny fraction the world's data available; libraries are quaint and delightful, but they're dinosaurs. All the knowledge in the world is now at our fingertips on the Internet. The Internet is one of the greatest inventions in history, on a par with moveable type and the Gutenburg printing press. A few people are using it to educate and better themselves—but relatively few. Most people just use it for trivial amusement, as you mentioned. Facebook adds very little value to the equation. In fact, I can't see that it does much that's productive. It's basically a vehicle for gossip and watching cat videos. Joel: And it's less than that. Aside from the general degradation of public discourse, social media also represents a kind of unalterable historical record of bad jokes and regrettable moments, accessible to anyone who may wish to besmirch one's character or skittle one's reputation. We've all said things we wish we hadn't. To err is to be human, after all. What do you make of a world in which everyone's worst moments are readily available to everyone else – including potential enemies – at the click of a mouse? Doug: Facebook enshrines stupidity. A heavy Facebook user is, in effect, saying: "Look at me! I'm a thoughtless person who doesn't have anything better to do with his time". That's on top of the fact that users are exposing their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts to the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and any of a hundred other nefarious agencies. In fact, there are credible allegations that Facebook, along with Google and Amazon, are willing tools of these intelligence agencies. No good can come of being a Facebookista. But that's about whether you should use Facebook. Whether you should own Facebook stock is a different question. Even after the recent selloff, Facebook still has a market cap of about $500 billion, which impresses me as a lot for a chat site cum advertising vehicle. Especially one where most of its growth is behind it. A lot of users are getting hip to the fact they're not customers, they're the product. Facebook was a clever innovation ten years ago. But you know, there's an old saying in the stock market: High Tech, Big Wreck! Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook. My understanding is that kids now see Facebook as something used by old people– people over 21 years of age. So if it's going nowhere with the younger generation, where's it's future? Maybe it picks up a billion new users in the Third World. Ultimately, what's that worth? Facebook may not be a terminal short sale, but I certainly won't be putting any of my own money into the stock. Joel: Assuming you're correct and Facebook 2.0 does displace the current market leader, are you hopeful that such a platform may serve to promote a heightened level of discourse? Perhaps people might find their way into "phyles," that is, subgroups based on commonly shared values that actually have real world meaning? Doug: I hope that, in a year or two, International Man itself grows into a community of likeminded people with above average I.Q.s, libertarian values, and real world experience. IM might, itself, even branch off to become its own kind of Facebook. A private version. I know there's a lot of talk about regulating FB, or breaking it up. That's a bad idea; the government should have zero to do with business in general—and areas related to free speech in particular. I'm disgusted by the fact FB has kicked Alex Jones and others off their platform. But they have a right to do so, as a private company. Although, on the other hand, they're almost a creature of the State. But that's not an excuse for the government to "step in". What will happen is that a newer, better Facebook lookalike—or a dozen of them—will replace them. FB will self-destruct. It's a non-problem. To be frank, you and I don't really have that much in common with most of the 7.3 billion people on this planet. In fact, while I like many individual humans, I despise humanity in general. The more people you put together in a group, the more they act like chimpanzees. Big groups force down the lowest common denominator. There's some cause for optimism, but only on a person-to-person basis. I prefer the company of people who value free minds and free markets—and I suspect most people who are reading this now feel the same way. Joel: That's probably a very good note to end this conversation on, Doug. Thanks, as always, for taking the time. Doug: Meanwhile, we'll look for something with the potential of Facebook in 2008… and stay away from Facebook today. Continue Reading Latest Why did Erdogan free two Greek soldiers after six months in a Turkish prison? The Duran – News in Review – Episode 83. Published 19 hours ago on August 19, 2018 By Alex Christoforou Two Greek soldiers freed after months in a Turkish prison returned to Greece by government jet after their unexpected release by a Turkish provincial court. Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said he phoned his Turkish counterpart to express his satisfaction with the soldiers' release and invite him to visit Greece. Kammenos told reporters, referring to the Feast of the Dormation, which falls on August 15 and to the Italian torpedoing on a Greek warship on this day in 1940… "This is a great day for our motherland, the day of Our Lady, the day of Tinos in 1940." "I hope that their release…will herald a new day in Greek-Turkish relations. We can live together peacefully, for the benefit of both our peoples." The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris examine the reasons behind Erdogan's unexpected overture to Greece, with the sudden release of two Greek soldiers held in a Turkish prison for nearly 6 months. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Via Ekathimerini… The soldiers – 2nd Lieutenant Angelos Mitretodis and Sergeant Dimitris Kouklatzis – were met by Kammenos, the army chief of staff and an honor guard after their arrival at 3 a.m. at the airport in the northern city of Thessaloniki. "All I want to say is thank you," Mitretodis told reporters. The men were arrested on March 1 for illegally entering Turkey after crossing the heavily militarized land border. Greece strongly protested their long detention in the western town of Edirne, arguing that they had strayed across during a patrol of a trail of suspected illegal immigration amid poor visibility due to bad weather. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed their release as "an act of justice," and provided the jet he uses on official foreign journeys to bring them back. Their release "will contribute to strengthening friendship, good neighborly relations and stability in the region," Tsipras said in a statement. "I want to congratulate and thank (the two men) and their families for their fortitude, patience and trust in our efforts, which were finally justified." In Athens, the Foreign Ministry said: "We welcome the release of the two members of the Greek armed forces … following more than five months of unjustified custody in Edirne prison. This decision by the Turkish authorities is positive and will contribute to the improvement of Greek-Turkish relations and the friendship between our people. "The constant efforts exerted by the Prime Minister, the Foreign Ministry and the diplomatic and consular missions of Greece in Turkey have borne fruit. Once again diplomacy is the biggest winner." The men's arrest had considerably strained Greek-Turkish relations. Kammenos had claimed that they were being held "hostage" by Turkey, which is trying to secure the extradition of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the 2016 failed military coup in Turkey. Ankara accuses its servicemen of involvement in the coup, but Greek courts have refused to extradite them, arguing they would not get a fair trial in Turkey and their lives would be in danger there. The two Greeks were released Tuesday pending the outcome of their trial by a Turkish court. Turkey's state Anadolu Agency said that in a court hearing to review a request for their release the two said in their defense that they had crossed the border by mistake. Mitretodis' father told the AP that his son had shown great strength in prison. "My wife phoned and told me the news, and at once I called the Greek consul (in Edirne) and confirmed that the lads have been set free," Nikos Mitretodis said. "They didn't do anything wrong, and they spent a long time in prison. But they were strong during all that time, and remain strong, they have to be." "I want to thank everyone for their solidarity – the media, our political leadership, the Church and anonymous people who stood by us," he added. Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said the release of the two soldiers "on the one hand constitutes a basic act of justice on the part of the Turkish authorities. On the other hand, it shows how Turkey can and should continue to fully reestablish the climate of friendship and good neighborliness with Greece". Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: "The release of the two Greek officers is happy news amid the gloomy summer that our country is experiencing. All Greeks await their return with joy and emotion." In Brussels, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was delighted by news of the Greek soldiers' imminent release. "As I said (before) … Turkey has nothing to fear from its European neighbors. We want to see a democratic, stable and prosperous Turkey," he posted on Twitter. Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog: On August 15, Greeks celebrate the "Dormition (or the Assumption) of the Virgin Mary (in Greek: Koimisis tis Theotokou). The holiday commemorates the "falling asleep" or death of the Theotokos (Mary, translated as "God-bearer"). August 15, one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox calendar, is celebrated across the country, and is a date when many Greeks leave the towns and cities where they live and work to return to their home villages." Stole that bit from the local Kathimerini paper. And I would add: while most Athenians leave for the islands, along with about 2 billion tourists. Thought I'd bring up the national holiday because in Turkey, they celebrate the same. The orthodox church is still going strong in both countries. Even if Turkey is leaning increasingly towards Islam. And even then: the House of the Virgin Mary shrine in Turkey, which the Apostle John is supposed to have built for her, on a mountain overlooking the Aegean, the place where Mary is said to have spent her last years, sees both Christian and Muslim pilgrims. All this can't be seen apart from some recent developments between the two countries. Turkey had been holding two Greek servicemen in jail after they crossed a border in bad weather early March. Athens got a phone call from Ankara, probably to Kammenos, not Tsipras, that said: you come get them. Whether that call was before or after the court decision we'll probably never know. A bit of a shame, because it could tell us a lot of where the decisions are made in Turkey. Then again, we do have an idea. A mere provincial court that could make decisions that go completely against what Erdogan desires? What are the odds? But stick around. Here's what's interesting about this: the two soldiers, who had been in detention for almost half a year, were released by a provincial court, and got back home on a joint Turkish/Greek national holiday. What's not to like? But then this: a few hours after they arrive home on PM Tsipras' own government jet at 3pm, another Turkish court decides that an appeal for American pastor Brunson to be released, is denied. Brunson is the guy Trump wants freed. John Bolton has said there'll be no more talks until that is done. But if one court takes a decision that at least on the face of it goes against supreme ruler Erdogan's demands, and another decides differently, Erdogan can claim the pastor's fate is out of his hands: it's the court system that decides. That victory over Trump, concerning not freeing the pastor, is apparently worth more to him than the defeat of not exchanging the soldiers for the 8 Turkish servicemen who have gotten asylum in Greece. Something Erdogan is allegedly very angry about, because he accuses them of being party to the 2016 'coup'. He's trying to play chess with Trump. ***** And then Reuters has this just now: Erdogan Spokesman Says Problems With US Will Be Resolved Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday he expected problems with the United States, which helped drive the lira to record lows, to be resolved but Washington must stop trying to influence Turkey's judiciary. Ibrahim Kalin also told a news conference that Turkey would exercise its rights if the U.S. does not deliver F-35 jets to Ankara. The lira, which has rallied after hitting a record low of 7.24 to the dollar, would continue to recover, he said. Via The Automatic Earth blog: A masterstroke? Did Erdogan just succeed in making everyone, including Trump, believe the Turkish judiciary system is impartial, and he's not the one keeping Brunson from leaving the country? Sure looks like he tried. 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By WGBH News
Jan. 31, 2012
BOSTON — As the ceremonies for former mayor Kevin White continue — he will lie in state Jan. 31, 2:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., at Parkman House on Beacon Hill, followed by a Feb. 1 funeral and motorcade in the Back Bay — a range of luminaries remembered White and his era.
"Greater Boston" examines White's legacy with Ted Landsmark, George Regan and former Boston mayor Ray Flynn, among other guests, and WGBH archival video.
TED LANDSMARK, president of Boston Architectural College; as a young lawyer he was attacked by anti-desegregation protestors in Boston City Hall Plaza in 1976, captured in a photo that went on to win a Pulitzer:
"There were many parts of that city at that point whether it was going to a sporting event at the Boston Garden or going to Fenway Park where African Americans were simply not welcome to go. … whatever the perception of his public face was, at the time it has to be remembered there was a lot of back-channel work that was going on, trying to work with the churches, trying to work with the police, trying to work with neighborhood leaders, trying to work together to bring some peace back to the city."
BILL OWENS, former Massachusetts state senator:
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KENNETH GUSCOTT, president of Boston's NAACP branch from 1963–1968:
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Photos by Will Roseliep/WGBH. Listen to the full conversation with Guscott, Landsmark and Owens.
MICHO SPRING was chief of staff and deputy mayor to White from 1976 to 1984.
"It was very usual to get a phone call for a Sunday-afternoon meeting at the Parkman House because the mayor had been thinking all weekend about something he wanted done on Monday morning.
And I remember being called up one Sunday morning and I arrived and the mayor announced to us that as of Monday he was reversing Charles Street to be the other way. ... We all looked at him and said, 'Without any community meetings?' And he said, 'I'm doing it. I'm just doing it. It's the right thing for the neighborhood. People are just going by Charles Street to get to the other side. It's destroying the sense of community we have and the small shops and I'm just going to do it. I've talked to a couple of storeowners. It's the right thing to do. It'll be a much better thing for Beacon Hill as a neighborhood and I'm just doing it.' And we were all like, 'No, Mayor, you can't mean this.'
"And course, A, he did it, and B, he was totally right and it changed the character of Charles Street big-time and the neighborhood loved it. But who today, would think about doing something like this without processing it?" Full discussion with Spring.
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Wegmans Food Markets Inc. and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have joined forces to offer the "QuitClub," a smoking cessation program available to all Wegmans employees and eligible spouses who want to quit smoking.
Participants in the "QuitClub" will have access to the specialized services of RPCI's tobacco cessation program. These services include telephone counseling provided by trained "Quit Coaches," stop smoking medications, a customized website offering interactive and informational quit tools, and in-store support to help smokers quit for good. Wegmans will pay the entire cost of the program; employees can join free.
"We are pleased to join with Roswell Park, a nationally recognized cancer center, to offer this valuable program to our employees in support of healthy lifestyle choices," said Becky Lyons, Wegmans director of benefits and wellness. "Quitting smoking is difficult, so it's very important that we provide the best tools to help them succeed."
"The cessation program provides an effective, cost-efficient, evidence-based approach to improve successful quits and keep people motivated to stay quit," said Andrew Hyland, Ph.D., chairman of the department of health behavior at RPCI. "The personalized stop smoking plan created with a trained 'Quit Coach' combined with online support has been documented to increase the ability of smokers to successfully quit."
"Wegmans Food Markets is known nationally as a company that values the contributions of its employees. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with them as they seek to improve employee wellness with the addition of the 'QuitClub,' " said Donald Trump, MD, FACP, president and CEO of Roswell Park.
In 2008, Wegmans' decision to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products was motivated by its concern for the destructive role smoking plays in health. At the same time, Wegmans established an initial tobacco cessation program for its employees, demonstrating the company's commitment to both employee and community wellness.
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LSU made a move that it expects will upgrade its offense and thereby strengthen its BCS championship prospects when it officially named Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator Friday.
The hiring of Cameron, a former head coach at Indiana and the NFL's Miami Dolphins, had been anticipated for a week but didn't get finalized until after the Mardi Gras holiday.
Cameron, who also will be quarterbacks coach, has been close to head coach Les Miles since both were assistants at Michigan in the late 1980s and early '90s. He agreed to a three-year deal, the details of which have yet to be finalized and are subject to approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors.
The moved triggered a juggling of the offensive staff. Greg Studrawa, who had doubled as coordinator and offensive line coach for the past two seasons, returns to his previous position as line coach. Quarterbacks coach Steve Kragthorpe, who relinquished his coordinator duties to Studrawa after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, will take on an administrative role in the football department.
Miles called the arrival of Cameron, 52, "a very key hire," referring to Friday as "a great day for LSU football." He said he texted Cameron "immediately" after learning of his firing as the Baltimore Ravens' coordinator Dec. 10, ending a 12-season tenure in the NFL.
"This move is designed to put us in line with a championship," Miles said. "I wanted to bring in somebody that would make us better. I didn't want to just bring in a guy. I certainly knew that when Cam became available that there was an outside chance that he might be available to us. What we've always wanted to do was be more productive, and I think this was an opportunity for us to increase our productivity by coaching expertise."
Cameron's dismissal came a day after Baltimore lost 31-28 in overtime at Washington to drop to 9-4. He was replaced by quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell. The Ravens lost two of their final three regular-season games, then went 4-0 during the postseason, culminating in a 34-31 victory over San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh praised Cameron for helping put the Ravens in position to make their Super Bowl run, and he and Cameron said they remain close.
LSU lost just four of 27 games while Studrawa was offensive coordinator, but each loss was marked by offensive shortcomings.
The Tigers had fewer than 100 yards in a 21-0 loss to Alabama in the BCS Championship Game after the 2011 season.
In a 14-6 loss at Florida last season, LSU didn't score a touchdown and was shut out in the second half. An inability to gain a late first down that likely would have allowed the Tigers to run out the clock with the lead marred a last-minute 21-17 loss to Alabama and a last-second 25-24 loss to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
"We've been pretty good, minus a minute and a half in two games," Miles said. "That being said, good's not good enough, and we want to be a great team. This program has a championship design, and we want to be in the last game."
In his role as quarterbacks coach, Cameron also will be expected to accelerate the development of senior Zach Mettenberger, who has a strong arm but showed just glimpses last season of the effectiveness that made him highly sought-after coming out of high school and junior college.
Miles said the LSU offense, which ranked 85th in the Football Bowl Subdivision in total yards and 92nd in passing, has "some strengths," and Cameron will have "an ability to change and restructure." Cameron said LSU has "a great foundation" and that he doesn't want to overhaul, just improve.
"I've seen a lot of games," he said. "It's a great system. I just want to build on it, challenge our guys to get better at some things. And then it's my job to adapt and adjust and bring my experience, my expectations and blend it in with what we're doing."
Cameron said he met with Mettenberger on Thursday.
"The one thing I just wanted to let him know is I'm all ears at this point," Cameron said. "When a guy gets into his fourth or fifth year, there's certain things you like to do, certain things know you're really good at.
"And one of the first things within this system of what we're doing is just, 'What does he like most?' "
Miles said he asked each assistant coach after the season for his thoughts on how the team could get better. He said Studrawa answered that he could be more effective as offensive line coach if he could spend more time doing that.
"I think Stud in other situations could easily be the offensive coordinator and line coach," Miles said.
"I think, at this level, there's a need to have a real hands-on approach with the offensive line. … Stud has always been a very team guy."